[D66] Workers and Capital by Mario Tronti

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Workers and Capital
by Mario Tronti Translated by David Broder

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400 pages / August 2019 / 9781788730402

The classic text of Italian workerism finally available in English

Workers and Capital is universally recognised as the most important work
produced by operaismo, a current of political thought emerging in the
1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left
in Italy and beyond. In the decade after its first publication in 1966,
the debates over Workers and Capital produced new methods of analysis
and a new vocabulary for thousands of militants, helping to inform the
new forms of workplace, youth and community struggles. Concepts like
“neocapitalism,” “class composition,” “mass-worker,” “the plan of
capital,” “workers’ inquiry” and “co-research” became an established
part of the Italian Left’s political lexicon. Over five decades since it
was first published, Workers and Capital is a key text in the history of
the international workers’ movement, yet only now appears in English
translation for the first time. Far from simply an artefact of the
intense political conflicts of the 1960s, Tronti’s work offers
extraordinary tools for understanding the powerful shifts in the nature
of work and class composition in recent decades.

Reviews

“Tronti’s analyses of capital and the potential to overthrow it, which
provided a beacon for generations of Italian radicals, have lost none of
their power today. All those who struggle within and against capitalist
society will find here a treasure of new insights and weapons.”

– Michael Hardt, co-author of Assembly